Former Symbol/Motorola Executive Joins Meru

Meru Networks announced the appointment of Sarosh Vesuna as Vice President of Business Development. He reports to Meru CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima.Vesuna comes to Meru from Motorola, where he was senior director of strategy and business development for the company's wireless LAN business, overseeing corporate development, partner alliances and strategic direction. He had previously spent 15 years as senior director of strategy and business development at Symbol Technologies (acquired by Motorola in 2007), where he was instrumental in the development of...

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AppTrigger Introduces Ignite Application Session Controller 9.0

AppTrigger released version 9.0 of its "Ignite" Application Session Controller (ASC), adding key performance enhancements, including support for Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC) and Media Server Markup Language (MSML). In addition, enhancements made to the Ignite software architecture allows the ASC to easily utilize leading edge server technology and distribute Ignite software across multiple CPUs or servers. AppTrigger's Ignite ASC ensures...

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Juniper T1600 to be Deployed in GÉANT2 Network

DANTE, an international research and education network provider, is upgrading the core GÉANT2 infrastructure using Juniper Networks' T1600 platform. The will enable DANTE to deliver a range of new, high-capacity services based on IPv6 and 40 Gbps technologies. The network is being deployed by Imtech Telecom Global, a Juniper Networks Elite partner. Currently deployed in the GÉANT2 network are the Juniper Networks T640 and M120 routers, which run...

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Former Symbol/Motorola Executive Joins Meru

Meru Networks announced the appointment of Sarosh Vesuna as Vice President of Business Development. He reports to Meru CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima.Vesuna comes to Meru from Motorola, where he was senior director of strategy and business development for the company's wireless LAN business, overseeing corporate development, partner alliances and strategic direction. He had previously spent 15 years as senior director of strategy and business development at Symbol Technologies (acquired by Motorola in 2007), where he was instrumental in the development of...

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Cisco Introduces Personal TelePresence System

Cisco expanded its high-definition video conferencing portfolio with a personal TelePresence system for use in individual offices and a large TelePresence room ideal for group training and cross-functional team meetings. The new Cisco TelePresence System 500 and Cisco TelePresence System 3200 join the existing Cisco TelePresence System 1000 and 3000 endpoints.The Cisco TelePresence System 500 integrates a 37-inch display, camera, an innovative microphone...

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Indonesia's Telkomsel Selects Ericsson's Blade-based Mobile Softswitch

Ericsson announced a contract to supply its Mobile Softswitch Solution (MSS) to Indonesia's Telkomsel. The solution will provide a common core network platform for both GSM and WCDMA technology and boost Telkomsel's network capacity, performance and coverage. The deployment includes the new MSC Server Blade Cluster, which up to 8 million subscribers with only two cabinets. This reduces space requirements by up to 90 percent and energy consumption...

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Reliance and Alcatel-Lucent form Joint Venture for Managed Services

Reliance Communications, India's largest integrated telecommunications service provider, and Alcatel-Lucent will establish a global joint venture to provide managed services for wireless telcos (both CDMA and GSM). The mission of the Joint Venture would be to facilitate a proactive, quick-to-respond environment to fast-paced and dynamic market conditions to leading telecom service providers. The companies estimate the global market for managed services at US$16 billion. The first assignment of this joint venture will be to provide Managed services...

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Sprint Nextel Posts Continuing Losses of Subscribers, Revenue

Sprint Nextel reported disappointing Q1 2008 wireless revenue of $8.0 billion, down 9% compared to the year-ago period and down 6% from the fourth quarter of 2007. The declines are mainly due to lower average service revenue per customer and fewer post-paid subscribers. The total number of wireless subscribers declined by 1.09 million due to losses of 1.07 million post-paid subscribers and 543,000 traditional prepaid users, partially offset by gains...

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Qualcomm Supports MediaFLO and International ISDB-T Mobile TV Standards

Qualcomm demonstrated the capability to support the MediaFLO and International Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (International ISDB-T) mobile TV standards on a multi-mode handset. The demonstration used Qualcomm's Universal Broadcast Modem (UBM) chipset, Qualcomm said this technology demonstration illustrates that MediaFLO technology can complement the free-to-air ISDB-T One-Seg standard used in Japan and the ISDB-TB standard used in Brazil to enable a mix of free and paid mobile broadcast content and services to drive consumer...

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Tata Expands Global Voice Network with Sonus

Tata Communications will expand its global voice network using gear from Sonus Networks. The network will be made up of the GSX9000 Open Services Switch, PSX Call Routing Server, SGX Signaling Gateway, the Sonus Insight Management System, as well as Sonus' Network Border Switch (NBS) for enhanced security and advanced peering capabilities.Tata Communications is implementing Sonus' IMX Multimedia Platform for the development of enhanced business...

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OpVista Unveils Dense Multi-Carrier Optical Technology

OpVista unveiled a Dense Multi-Carrier (DMC) technology that combines advanced multiple carrier photonics, lambda stabilization and multi-level modulation to deliver 40G and 100G bandwidth per wavelength, while maintaining compatibility with the characteristics of existing 10G networks. The company describes its DMC as an optical breakthrough that will enable existing 10G metro and long-haul networks to scale their capacity to up to eight terabits/sec...

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Procera Releases 80 Gbps DPI Platform

Procera Networks introduced its PacketLogic PL10000, a high-performance DPI platform offering up to 80Gbps of throughput and purpose-built for deployments either at the core or edge of Tier-1 broadband networks. Procera, which also offers a range of smaller DPI platforms, is targeting a new type of "evolved DPI" capable of enhancing application awareness with service control capabilities.The PacketLogic PL10000, which leverages an ATCA chassis and...

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Fixed Wireless Opportunity - Business Only Broadband in Chicago and NYC

1. Who is Business Only Broadband? 2. The Business Plan 3. Strategic Differentiators for Fixed Wireless 4. How is the Network Physically Deployed? 5. Spectrum Used 6. Is Fixed Wireless a Primary Service or a Back-up Network? 7. The Network Architecture and Equipment Deployed Rich Kingston, CEO, Business Only Broadband...

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